During this play's first stasimon, the chorus compares one character's death to Althaea's killing of Meleager, Scylla's cutting of Nisus's hair, and the Lemians murder of thei
During this play's first stasimon, the chorus compares one character's death to Althaea's killing of Meleager, Scylla's cutting of Nisus's hair, and the Lemians murder of their husbands. In this play's lengthy kommos, its chorus joins its onstage characters in invoking the wrath of their father's ghost. The action of this play is set in motion by a woman who dreams that she gives birth to a snake which breastfeeds from her and mixes blood with her milk. At the beginning of this play, one character places a (*) lock of his hair on a grave, causing his sister to recognize him from his hair and his footprint. In the climactic scene of this play, Aegisthus is murdered, and Pylades encourages his cousin to uphold his oath to Apollo and kill Clytemnestra, an act that causes him to be pursued by the Furies. For 10 points, name this tragedy by Aeschylus that takes place between Agamemnon and The Eumenides in the Oresteia.
During this play's first stasimon, the chorus compares one character's death to Althaea's killing of Meleager, Scylla's cutting of Nisus's hair, and the Lemians murder of their husbands.
The {Libation Bearers} [or {Choephoroi}]